This Wednesday, August 10, the Police at the service of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega celebrate seven days of besieging the Episcopal Curia of Matagalpa, preventing the exit of Monsignor Rolando Alvarez and 10 more people, between priests and laity.
The police fence of the agents of the sanctioned Police could exceed 50 officers that keeps all access to the bishop’s residence blocked.
The Episcopal Curia of the Diocese of Matagalpa became the “prison” imposed de facto by the Ortega-Murillo regime on the Catholic leader and a group of Church servants with whom he has been held since noon on August 3. .
The members of the Catholic community who are in the Curia together with Bishop Álvarez are the priests Ramiro Tijerino, rector of the Juan Pablo II Catholic University in Matagalpa; Sadiel Eugarrios, first vicar of the Cathedral Church; Father Raúl González; Monsignor Óscar Escoto, Vicar General of the Diocese of Matagalpa; Father José Luis Díaz, first vicar of the Cathedral Church of Matagalpa; the seminarians darvin leiva Y Melkin Sequeira; the member of the choir Henry Corvera; and the cameramen of TV Merced Flavio Castro Y Sergio Cardenas.
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Membreno Sujin, a member of the choir of the Diocese of Matagalpa, who was also isolated with the monsignor in the Episcopal Curia, managed to leave the place on Monday afternoon, August 8, “thanks to efforts” made by his family. Membreño is the only person who has been allowed to leave the Curia.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, August 9, the Ortega Police did not allow the person who prepares the food to access the bishop’s residence, nor the entry of medicines or clothing for some priests, revealed The Press.
Recently, the Nicaraguan University Alliance (AUN) warned that Father Ramiro Tijerino’s health “is beginning to be affected.” Opponents indicate that the also administrator of the parish of the San Juan Bautista de Matagalpa church is hypertensive and is without medication inside the curia.
In addition, the police officers do not allow the entry of food either, despite this it is expected that in the pantry of the enclosure it will be enough for at least a week. On the other hand, there is a fear that food will run out after seven days feeding more than 10 people.
The Sandinista Police prevent Monsignor Rolando Álvarez and his companions from leaving the place, in the midst of an escalation of repression directed by the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship against the Catholic Church in Nicaragua.
The Ortega regime ordered the Bishop of Matagalpa to be besieged again, after the “immediate” closure of at least seven Catholic stations that were in charge of Monsignor Álvarez, one of the most popular Catholic leaders in Nicaragua.
For their part, priests from various parishes in the country have expressed their solidarity with the Diocese of Matagalpa and have asked the parishioners to raise their prayers for Monsignor Álvarez, the five priests, seminarians and lay people held in the episcopal curia. The Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes invited the people “not to fear and have faith in God”after expressing his fraternity with Bishop Álvarez.
